Araneus beipiaoensis
No picture of Araneus beipiaoensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araneus beipiaoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraneusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Araneus beipiaoensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group2
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The named rock units Araneus beipiaoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araneus beipiaoensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Araneus beipiaoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aeschna acrodonta1 site
- Araneus aethus1 site
- Araneus liaoxiensis1 site
- Araneus reheensis1 site
- Cretadromus liaoningensis1 site
- Cretaraneus liaoningensis1 site
- Gnaphosa liaoningensis1 site
- Gomphus1 site
- Gomphus biconvexus1 site
- Liaoninglanthus1 site
- Liaoninglanthus latus1 site
- Liogomphus yixianensis1 site
- Palaeocambarus licenti1 site
- Theridion atalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Araneus beipiaoensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- New discovery of Nephilidae in Jehol biota (Araneae, Nephilidae)1
- Some new species of spider and Sacculinidae fossils in Jehol biota1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Araneus beipiaoensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araneus beipiaoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araneus beipiaoensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAraneus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang 2004